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Winter Charm

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Jul 31, 2008
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I am running a windows partition on my mac mini through bootcamp to play some (really old) casual games...

Anyways, I used defraggler to analyze my windows partition and noticed that it was 58% fragmented :eek: I guess I've gotten pretty used to not defragmenting once I switched over to mac :D

Anyways, I was wondering if defragmenting my windows partition would have any adverse effects on the mac partition on my HDD. Can anyone explain if/why i should or should NOT defragment windows within a bootcamp partition?

Any and all feedback would be much appreciated :)

PS: just ordered my 2011 MBP!!! :D 15" (i'm excitificated.)
 
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Defragging in Windows does not touch the Mac half of the disc at all, neither logically or physically.
 
Defragging in Windows does not touch the Mac half of the disc at all, neither logically or physically.

Thank you very much. :) I just needed to hear that... now, I'm off to teach myself one of the many reasons that :apple: > Windoze.
 
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